Import project - Repo by URL - Authentication - Password can not contain a @

Description of the problem

When importing a project by using a repo URL a @ in the password string is not correctly evaluated:

https://username:p@ssword@gitlab.company.com/group/project.git.

Import in progress.

git clone --bare https://*****:*****@gitlab.mydomain.nl/group/project.git

Please wait while we import the repository for you. Refresh at will.

Error

Every import attempt has failed: Error importing repository https://*****:*****@ssword@gitlab.mydomain.nl/group/project.git into xxx/project3 
- Cloning into bare repository '[REPOS PATH]/xxx/project3.git'...

fatal: unable to access 'https://*****:*****@ssword@gitlab.mydomain.nl/group/project.git/': Could not resolve host: ssword@gitlab.mydomain.nl
. Please try again.

Could not resolve host: ssword@gitlab.dev-ict.tudelft.nl